Powered by a tidy bowling performance, India registered a comprehensive 23-run victory over South Africa in their women's World Cup warm-up fixture in Sydney on Tuesday.

Batting first, the star studded Indian team could only score 167 runs in 45.3 overs.

Opening batsman Anjum Chopra top scored with 53. In a 107 ball knock, Chopra scored 73 runs for the second wicket with former skipper Mithali Raj, who scored a crucial 29 runs.

For South Africa, pace bowler Shabnim Ismail took 4 wickets for 35 runs.
 

Former India skipper Kapil Dev has criticized the BCCI for not giving an official status to the Indian Cricket League (ICL).

The talks between the BCCI and ICL officials failed for the second time in Johannesburg last week.

The ICC would now discuss the ICL issue at the ICC Board meeting in April.

Due to this, an irritated Kapil Dev now plans to take a legal action against the BCCI officials. Dev, the ICL chairman said that the legal process would be initiated shortly against the Indian cricket board.

Johannesburg  - Football's controlling body FIFA on Tuesday expressed their disappointment at the lack of hype surrounding the Confederations Cup that is to be hosted in South Africa from June 14 to June 18.

The FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke told a press briefing that he did not see a single poster for the competition.

"There's nothing not even at the airport that shows you that this is a Confederations Cup host city. We appointed a signage company on Tuesday to promote it," he said.

London  - Disgraced British sprinter Dwain Chambers admits in his forthcoming autobiography "Race Against Me" that he took a concoction of over 300 performance-enhancing drugs.

In an instalment published in Tuesday's Daily Mail ahead of next Monday's release, Chambers, who served a two-year ban after being found guilty of doping offences in
2003, said he had paid out 30,000 dollars a year for doping substances.

With less than 24 hours to board the flight to Australia, the Indian women's cricket team appeared upbeat about locking horns with the best in the ICC Women's World Cup. Skipper Jhulan Goswami was happy with the preparations and is keen to go the distance beginning their campaign on March 7 against Pakistan at Bradman Oval in Bowral .

Pakistani skipper Younis Khan's maiden triple ton against Sri Lanka in the drawn Test at Karachi moved him six places ahead to take the number one position in the latest ICC player rankings for Test batsmen released here.